Paul however
says, "If I have all faith, so that I can remove mountains, and have not love, I
am nothing. He also deliberately makes a contrast of the gifts "Now abideth
Faith, Hope, Love," and without a moment's hesitation, he says, "The greatest of
these is Love." We tend to express to others our strong points. And Love
was quite frankly not one of Paulís big ones. True he mellows with age and you
can see a growing of tenderness as he ages but at this point!

Peter says,
"Above all things have fervent love among yourselves." And John goes farther,
"God is love." Paul says elsewhere, "Love is the fulfilling of the law." Have
you ever thought about the implications of that? In those days men were working
their passage to Heaven by keeping the Ten Commandments and the hundred plus
other commandments which they had manufactured out of them. Christ said, I will
show you a simpler way. If you do one thing, you will do these hundred plus
things, without ever thinking about them. If you love, you will unconsciously
fulfill the whole law. How can that be? Take any of the commandments.
"You shall have no other gods before Me." If you Love God you donít need to tell
them that, you will automatically. Love is the fulfilling of that law. "Take not
His name in vain." Would you ever dream of taking His name in vain if you truly
loved Him? Love would fulfill all these laws regarding God. And so if you love
them, you do not have to think of telling us to honor our father and mother, we
can not do anything else. Not to kill or steal. How could you kill or steal from
those you love? Bear false witness against your neighbor. If you love him it
would be the last thing you would do. Not to covet what your neighbors has. You
would rather they possessed it than your self. In this way "Love is the
fulfilling of the law." It is the rule for fulfilling all rules, the new
commandment for keeping all the old commandments, Christ's one secret of the
Christian life.

We have one
understanding to come to and that is that Love and Like are not
synonymous nor are they necessarily connected. You do not have to like some one
to love them. After all God loves us and we are not real likable much of the
time, are we?

I have said before that Love is the one thing that if you give it away you end
up having more.

Why do you want
to live tomorrow? Hopefully It is because there is some one who loves you, and
whom you want to see tomorrow, and be with, and love back. The reasons for
living feel hollow, if there is no one to love and no one to love you. And if
there is no other reason why we should live on, it is that we love and are
loved. So long as some one has friends, those who love them and who they love,
they will live; because to live is to love. Be it but the love of a dog, it will
keep them in life; but let that go and they have no contact with life, no reason
to live.